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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Theodros Yigzaw, Sherwood, OR (US);
Geeyarpuram N. Santhanakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mark Rowland, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ganapati Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Theodros Yigzaw, Sherwood, OR (US);
Geeyarpuram N. Santhanakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mark Rowland, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ganapati Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method is disclosed for selecting a first subset of a plurality of cache ways in a cache for storing hardware threads identified as high priority hardware threads for processing by a multi-threaded processor in communication with the cache; assigning high priority hardware threads to the selected first subset; monitoring a cache usage of a high priority hardware thread assigned to the selected first subset of plurality of cache ways; and reassigning the assigned high priority hardware thread to any cache way of the plurality of cache ways if the cache usage of the high priority hardware thread exceeds a predetermined inactive cache usage threshold value based on the monitoring.